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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines. North Carolina Friday, April 25, 1947. THE PILOT PUBUSHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT, INCORPORATED SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH'CAROLINA 1941 JAMES BOYD Publisher KATHARINE BOYD. - - - EDITOR VALERIE NICHOLSON ASST. EDITOR DAN S. RAY - - GENERAL MANAGER BERT PREMO - - - -ADVERTISING CHARLES MACAULEY - - CITY EDITOR MARY BAXTER I - - SOCIETY EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR - $3.00 SIX MONTHS - - $1.50 THREE MONTHS - .75 ENTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE AT SOU- THERN PINES, N. C., AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER. BROAD STREET TRAFFIC What can we do about Broad street? These crowded months, which are, we are happy to note, stretch ing farther 'and farther beyond the so-called season, the traffic congestion along our main street is becoming truly serious. With cars parked on both sides of the street, it becomes frequent ly impossible to find a place to park, and it requires the skill of a trick driver to get down the street safely. The two lines of traffic bafely graze the parked cars, while, if one starts to back ' out, the line is held up several minutes and many a nice new fen der has been dented in involun tary scrapings. Two ideas present themselves and we submit that though each one appears pretty drastic, the time is rapidly approaching when drastic measures will have to be applied. One thought is to make East and Wesit Broad streets one way streets. The other is to for bid parking along the curb. Both these ideas make for great inconvenience on the part of everybody; neither will appeal to our people. But the Pilot cannot think of alternatives which .are any more agreeable that will do the trick. We invite the participation of our readers in a discussion of this pesky problem, in which everybody is closely concerned. Here is a real “town meetin’ ” question that ought to be decided by all of us together. CARTHAGE GATHERING The Moore County Historical association is planning tq hold its* next meeting in the court house at Carthage and to take a tour of the historic sites in that sec tion of the county. This is good news. Up until this date, and that means for the first year of its existence, the society has met in the Southern Pines library. Chosen because of its convenience for many of the founders of the association, the Pbrary seemed, because of its at tractiveness and its atmosphere of books and study, an appropri ate meeting place in which the society might get under way with the proper feeling of history and tradition behind it. But it is time, now, to hold a meeting ih our county seat, in a town where there are many historic sites and which is North Carolina from top to toe. In a report recently submitted to members of the association, the president describes the accom plishments of the group to date. They are impressive. From a ma terial standpoint, the great achievement is the purchase and reconstruction of the Squire Shaw house at the southern end of town. This first project of the association stands, now, as proof positive of its success and*value to our section. And now, realiz ing that this project can stand on its own feet, the society is look ing ahead toward the other pro jects which they have in mind. These have not yet been listed, but, says the president’s report, “our projects are ambitious.” The phase is full of prqmise and it would seem that the first step, in holding the next meeting in the Carthage court house, is a happy one. It is planned that the group will meet there to hear a talk by Salem College’s Dr. Rond- thaler, after which the prizes will be awarded to the winners of the society’s contest in historical writing in which 13 Moore Coun ty students have taken part. Fol lowing the ceremony, the gather ing will take to the road and visit the House in the Horseshoe, Gov ernor William's’ tomb and other historic spots of that section, fin ishing the tour with refreshments at the home of one of the mem bers, Julian Bishop, on his quail farm. All of this seems to us quite ex citing. If ever there was a: time when we needed to be reminded of the faith and fortitudie of ouf ancestors it is now. We can, per haps, without stretching things too far, compare our present state of mind to theirs. Like us they had come through a bitter fight and hard struggle to survive. Whether the fight represented the actual armed clashes of those times or the arduous efforts of the pioneer, there must have been, while it lasted a feeling of unity, of excitement and stimula tion that gave a spirit of confi dence to those living then. But after it was over came the long pull. Then the hardships loomed large, the weariness grew some times bitter, the way anead seem ed endless. Many people quit and went back to England; that part of the story is • seldom heard. Those that stayed are the ones we think about: they are our an cestors. • So today, confused, weary, bit terly tired of facing things, we face what may lie ahead. The people who take the Moore County Historical association’s tour on April 20, who will stand by vine-covered tombstones end the tumbled rosy bricks of old homesteads, may well come away refreshed and strengthened to have felt, for a moment, the steadying hand of the past reach ing out to touch them on the shoulder. DEEPLY DISTURBING Let’s admit, firsts that we do a Tot of things that the other na tions don’t understand and don’t like. The criticism that follows is not made in a “better than thou” spirit. We are ready to admit that we may well be a lot worse than many of the “thous”. The trouble of mind we’re in this time is what to do and think about our friends. We are getting sadly used to being gloomy and desperately uncomfortable about Russia. But what are we going to do about Britain? The hanging of the four Jewish extremists strikes us as hideously wrong, hideously unwise. Surely such severity will have the oppo site effect from that desired. Seville Davis, the Christian Science Monitor’s chief of their London News Bureau, writes as follows- of the event: “The tragedy of Palestine was deepened immeasurably today when four Jewish extremists, in cluding Dov Bela Groner, were executed suddenly and secretly by British authorities. The action precipitates a state of virtual warfare between two peace-loving peoples and raises questions of rights and wrongs tactics and policies, which are ex tremely complex. The four executed men never had been either charged or con victed of killing anyone. Only one of them—Groner—had been proved to have taken part in a raid in which one Arab police man was killed. ^No one, of course, questions the British casualties which have resulted from the many terrorist incidents in Palestine. But it is notable that the four men who were selected for these execu tions of such great symbolic im portance required the severest sort of military justice to qualify them for the capital penalty.” Granted that the question of Palestine appears almost insolu ble, we cannot believe that any thing but continued trouble, hate and pain will come of such methods. Bringing further dismay to friends of Britain is the account of the Herald Tribune’s Homer Bigart, long a trusted member of the paper’s staff, of recent Brit ish- Arab dealings. The report tells of important concessions'of fered to Britain by four Arab states in return for a decision favorable to the Arabs in the Pal estine dispute. ' The states invited Britain to train their armies and offered to help erect defense positions as a bloc iaigainst Russia if Britain would help their cause. The sin ister touch is in the statement of the delegate of the Arab commit tee that the suggestion of mili tary co-operation came from the British War Office and was car ried to Cairo by the cousin of the exiled Mufti, the most notoriousi scoundrel of the Arab world, a former staunch supporter of Hit ler. Bigart does not vouch for the truth of this report, but quotes It as coming from a usually re liable source. A reporter with a strong sense of responsibility, it is certain that he would not re lease this story if he did not him self believe it to be true. It gives a picture of secret intrigue that is frightening in the extreme. The United States is new at this prt of thing and we would certainly be no match for the old hands, even if we wanted to be. Perhaps somehow we can manage to steer a way through the in trigues of the old world into the light of a new and better one. For there is no doubt that this is not the sort of thing our people like. We have been deeply troubled by some aspects of the Greek- Turkey situation and most Amer icana are even more distressed over Palestine. These latest de velopments will further shake our confidence in those with whom we are trying to work. PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE The week of April 20 has been designated Public Health Nurse Week. This business of “weeks” is absurd and exasperating; and rather insulting too. It insults our intelligence, as well as the causes thus crammed down our throats, to have to be told when to feel good or bad about something or other. In some cases the motive behind the ‘''week” is as dubious as sofhe of the causes: commer cialism, pure and simple. But in just a few cases, it is a fact that, so worthy of notice are they, and yet so unpublicized and unglam- orous, it is perhaps just as well that they should be brought to our attention even in this stupid way. That may be the case with this present “week”. Nurses are, in general, the unsung heroines of the medical world. Their work is grueling and they go about it so quietly, so efficiently that, to our shame, they are very seldom thought of, much less rendered due respect and credit. This is, perhaps, especially true of the public health nurse. In fact, it is a fair guess that if you asked a roomful of average peo ple what a public health nurse was, few of them could give you a correct answer. The public health field lies in that of preventive medicine, al most entirely, and, beyond that, is concerned with those who can not afford private care. The health department under whom these nurses work, conduct pub lie clinics, as well as carry out many other forms of public health work. Beginning with pre-natal clinics they follow the whole cycle of life: baby clinics, pre school clinics, school clinics and on into the adults with TB, VD and so forth. The nurses help with the clinics, and visit pa tients, frequently at remote inac cessible farms or hamlets, and try always, while they give need ed medical instruction in line with that prescribed by the doc tors, to advise and teach better ways of living. Education plays a leading part in the public health nurse’s job. And, inciden tally, bedside nursing plays no part in it beyond demonstration and advice. A public health nurse’s* work is not as confining as a hospital nurse’s task; it is not as hard, in .cencqntrated, exihausting work. But the endless struggle which it represents must be infinitely wearying. The repeated efforts to persuade unwilling people to do this or that: to eat better food, keep themselves clean, come to the clinics, take better care of their children or themselves, must get very discouraging, while the lack of the slightest gratitude on the part of the ma jority, and the almost, complete lack of recognition by the public at large must be disheartening, to say the least. Perhaps it -is just as well to have Public Health Nurse week, to force us to stop and think about these admirable, self-sac rificing women, going about their business so quietly, helping to build up and keep up the health of our people. STATE SYMPHONY Last week I had the good for tune to hear the concert by the State Symphony orchestra under its gifted director. Dr. Swalin at the Maxton air base. I understand that some, perhaps many, of the players are ama teurs. If so, they completely des troyed their amateur standing on that evening by playing with the assured competence of seasoned professionals. The result was a highly skilled, well knit perfor mance completely satifying from both interpretative and technical points of view. Moreover the players tackled their immensely difficult assignment with a youth- fiil enthusiasm and devotion which was both inspiring and re freshing. The total effect on at least one absorbed listener was compar able only to the creative thrill to be experienced by playing or singing a part oneself with a group of musically sympathetic friends. Whether the state sym phony players were conscious of this creative thrill, as they play ed Tschaikovsky’s stirring fourth symphony or Debussy’s lovely Afternoon of a Faun, I do iiot know but there was every indica tion that they were. Notable features of the pro gram were beautifully played solos for flute and harp. An origi nal modernistic composition by Dr. Swalin put the musical com prehension of the audience to a severe test which the writer fail ed to pass. The avowed purpose of the or chestra being not only to provide evenings of the most rewarding kind of recreation but to help to make the enjoyment of fine music indispensable in every home in the state, it should be considered one of our most valu able cultural and educational as sets, and one in which we can take great pride. As such it is entitled to the moral and liberal financial support of the state gov ernment. Equally important to its success is the assistance all can render by becoming members of the symphony society and pay ing its modest dues. My one feeling of regret at the close of the evening was that we PEACE PRIORITIES I planned an ultra-modern home when priorities were lifted BUJT A BELGIAN WOMAN whispered: “I have no home at all!” I dreamed of a country place of luxurious weekends BUT A JEWISH LAD kept saying “I have no country!” I decided on a new cupboard right now . . . BUT A CHILD IN CHINA cried out, “I have no cup!” I started to purchase a new kind of washing machine BUT A POLISH WOMAN said softly, “I have nothing to wash.” I wantetd a quick-fijeeze unit for storing quantities of food BUT ACROSS THE WATERS came the cry: ‘'I have no food!” I ordered a new car for the pleasure of my loved ones ... BUT A WAR ORPHAN murmured, “I have no loved ones!” Mayme Garner Miller Next To Ability Comes Appearance Without tliat air of high H morale, which comes from the feeling that your ap pearance is just as good as .your ability . . . You’re Josb before you start! A Threat to Historic Trees To the New York Herald Tribune: Within a few weeks, or per haps we should say days, the most menacing and destructive raid On our national parks system in many years will come out in Con gress, well organized to win a quick victory over all opposition, since it is backed by the approval and support of the highest offi cials who ought jealously to pro tect the parks. It is proposed to trim at least ninety-two square miles out of the western lowland part of the Olympic National Park in Wash ington. It is in this lowland region and nowhere else that the famous big timber of the Olympic Penin sula grows; Douglas firs seven or eight feet in diameter and sometimes over 300 feet tall (the last large examples of that won derful tree which used to be America’s greatest timber re source), and also immense trees of other kinds such as Sitka spruces. Lowland white firs. Western cedars and other species of which large examples are fast disappearing. The park has now far too little of this lowland big timber, and this proposed boun- dfy reduction will turn over to the local lumber interests a large percentage of it, perhaps the greater part of it. The environment on the Olym pic Peninsula includes a wealth of vegetation. The trees, encour aged by heavy rains, reach a maximum exceeded in but few lo calities throughout the world. When these forest giants are cut down the climax vegetation of centuries will disappear. It will be impossible to restore primitive conditions in a region that has been cut over for timber. To preserve some of these won derful stands of big trees was the chief purpose of the park, but the protests and obstruction of the local lumber companies pre vented much big timber from be ing included. The Olympic Moun tains themselvesi, with their snow and ice fields, rocky peaks and small, worthless trees of fence- post or Christmas tree sizes, are in no danger either in or out of the park. The Olympic National Park was finally established in 1938 by the earnest and presevering efforts of Secretary of the Interior Ickes, Governor Monrad C. Wallgren. who was then in Congress, and President Roosevelt himself. All therough the perilous pieriod of the late war its timber was pro tected from the hysterical de mands of the local lumber men, who pretended it wasi needed to win the war, by the ceaseless and self-sacrificing work of the di rector of the National Park Ser vice, Mr. Newton B. Drury, with the support and backing of Secre tary Ickes and of President Roosevelt. During the war a large tract of splendid timber just west of the park that was to have been in cluded in it was logged and des troyed forever, but, thanks to the courage and determination of the men just mentioned, not an acre of the park itself was invaded. But now Roosevelt is gone and Ickes is out of office and conser vation no longer gets the same con^deration in Washington. The local lumber and wood-pulp in dustries of Gray’s Harbor and Pprt Angeles see their long- awaited opportunity and will not delay in making the most of it. The Olympic National Park is tie property of the whole Ameri can people and was established tu be permanently preserved and protected for their benefit. Yet now we have the highest admin- utrative officials of this_ great na tion lof nearly 140,000,000 people telling us that the business in terests of two or three counties ik Washington State are so pow- e.'ful that the nation’s only hope is to appease them by surrender ing to them' the most important trea in this great park or else they wiU take all the rest of the park timber that is worth taking. Why cannot the government pro tect the nation’s parks from sei zure by private interests? Not only the Olympic National Park but the whole national park system is menaced. Immed iate action is needed. The millions of Americans all over the country who have visited and enjoyed and been thrilled by the magnificance of our parks need to make them selves heard at once. It should not be forgotten that the major ity of these park visitors and lov ers of the parks are citizens with votes. Already there are at least two bills in Congress for exploiting the Olympic National Park tim ber; but the most dangerous and important one, the one in which the government will abjectly sur render to the local interests, at least to the extent of giving them the ninety-two-mile tract, is still under cover. Do not wait for it to come out in the open. Then it may be too late to kill it. Write at once to your Senators and Representa tives, to the chairmen of the Sen ate and House Public Lands Com mittees and to the Secretary of the Interior, Julius A. Krug, and to President Truman and protest against giving up an acre of land or taking a stick of timber from the Olympic National Park. If the finest features of our national park system are to be treated as expendable resources for political purposes, our parks will soon be skeletons from which all the meat has been pick ed. The time for the public to pro test is now. WILLARD G. VAN NAME. C. & C Cleaners Be Wise And Analize Your Appearance With C. & C. Cleaning Phone 8600 Aberdeen, N. C. Announcing.... No Admission Charge Tues.y Wed. and Thurs. 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